President Donald Trump just received a jaw-dropping rejection from America’s military community.

Trump has spent the last several days picking a petty fight with the families of military service people killed overseas. The whole controversy started after Trump reportedly told a widow that her husband “knew what he signed up for.”

Since then, Trump has doubled down on his tasteless remarks, while thousands of veterans and their families have come forward to call out Trump for his long history of disrespectful behavior. Below is one powerful example.

“When my son, SGT Jason Alan Schumann, was killed in Iraq 10 years ago, George W. Bush sent me a heartfelt letter. Now we have a president who degrades our fallen heroes, then calls their mourning families liars on Twitter,” military mother Candi Glisson wrote in an open letter to Trump that is now going viral online.

Glisson’s letter has already been shared thousands of times online by fellow Americans who are disturbed by Trump’s recent actions.

My son was killed in Iraq. Here’s my message to Trump:

On October 4th, 2017, four of our troops were killed in an ambush in Niger. For twelve long days, we didn’t hear a word from this Commander in Chief. Twelve days. Total silence.

On Monday, he said he was “too busy” to pay respects to the Gold Star families (although he had plenty of time for golfing, sabotaging our health care, and trying to ban Muslims). Finally, last night, he called one of the grieving mothers. But instead of offering sympathy and remorse, he callously said that her son, SGT La David Johnson, “knew what he signed up for.”

This is beyond the pale, even for Trump. When my son, SGT Jason Alan Schumann, was killed in Iraq 10 years ago, George W. Bush sent me a heartfelt letter. Now we have a president who degrades our fallen heroes, then calls their mourning families liars on Twitter.
This goes so far beyond party politics. Trump is a dangerous liar. He fabricated the truth on national television by claiming no previous president ever reached out to Gold Star families. He tried to use fallen heroes to score political points. Now, after saying La David Johnson should’ve known better, Trump is accusing a Gold Star widow and a Gold Star mother of making the story up.

When George W. Bush contacted me, he didn’t brag about it. He did so quietly. When Barack Obama met fallen soldiers at the airbase in Dover, he didn’t take to Twitter or turn it into a politicized photo-op. I may have disagreed with Bush, but at least he was respectful, humble, and dutiful.
To say I’m sickened by Trump’s remarks would be an understatement. And I know, with certainty, that my son would be utterly disgusted too. Not just by Trump’s remarks this week, but by Trump’s entire platform of bigotry, hate, and divisiveness. That isn’t the kind of country he swore an oath to protect. That’s not the kind of country he fought and died for.

America is already great because of families like Glisson’s. No matter what terrible things Trump says and does, he can never take that away. NB: By clicking ‘SHARE,’ you can make a difference. Help us get the word out.

Thank you to all the brave families that are standing up to Trump and his awful behavior!

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